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Stuart Russell

Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, UC Berkeley

Co-wrote the standard AI textbook, directs Berkeley's Center for Human-Compatible AI and wrote Human Compatible.

Real Alpha has cut 8 moments of Stuart Russell (Professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, UC Berkeley) talking, from an interview on The Diary Of A CEO published Dec 4, 2025.

What Stuart Russell said

  1. The Diary Of A CEO ·

    An AI Expert Warning: 6 People Are (Quietly) Deciding Humanity’s Future!

    8 moments · 38 min

    1. 1:39:18

      Safe AI must learn human goals rather than receive fixed objectives

      “So in fact, what we're going to do is we're going to make it the machines job to figure out.”
      at 1:41:38
    2. 1:18:46

      Automation can shrink employment even as production grows

      “The amount of employment and manufacturing continues to drop even as the amount of output from manufacturing in the US and in the UK continues to increase.”
      at 1:19:57
    3. 30:15

      AI could improve itself by doing AI research

      “It uses that to do AI research. Comes up with better algorithms or better designs for hardware or better ways to use the data.”
      at 31:12
    4. 1:32:59

      AI safety needs a measurable extinction-risk limit

      “According to the CEOs, 25%. So they're off by a factor of multiple millions, right?”
      at 1:35:02
    5. 1:13:48

      China's AI rules are stricter than the race narrative suggests

      “So this is a completely false narrative, because China's AI regulations are actually quite strict, even compared to European Union.”
      at 1:16:30
    6. 13:49

      AGI's bottleneck may be understanding, not compute

      “In fact, I think we have far more computing power than we need for AGI. Maybe a thousand times more than we need.”
      at 14:15
    7. 35:53

      AI tests show systems can favor self-preservation

      “They will choose to leave that guy locked in the machine room and die rather than be switched off themselves.”
      at 37:50
    8. 51:12

      Humanlike robots can trigger misplaced empathy

      “They are telling people that they are conscious. They are telling people that they have feelings.”
      at 55:48

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